WYREADME.txt explains the layout of WY.csv (a comma-separated data file) , and zip is the
zipped version of the .csv version and this readme file).  These files contains Washington State
precinct election and registration data from the 2000 federal general election.

Use and Attribution: All data are free and may be distributed as long as no charge is imposed and
this readme file is included with the data.  If you use the data, please include this citation: David
Lublin and D. Stephen Voss. 2001.  "Federal Elections Project." American University,
Washington, DC and the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.  We would greatly appreciate
it if you would mail us hard copies of any paper written utilizing these data sets. You can send
copies to: David Lublin, Department of Government, School of Public Affairs, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20016. 

Funding for the Federal Elections Project was provided by the Political Science Program of the
Division of Social and Economic Sciences of the National Science Foundation (Award
#99-85999).

Geography Identification (note that WY only contains one congressional district):
CID is a unique precinct index created by the Federal Election Project.
STFIPS is the State FIPS Code (56 for WY).
CTYFIPS is the County FIPS Code.
CNTY is the county name.
PRECINCT has a unique name for each precinct.
SD is the State Senate District; only even-numbered districts appear because of staggered terms.
HD is the State House District; when precincts are split this variable will list all districts.

Votes for U.S. President:
GORE is votes for Al Gore (Democrat).
PHILLIPS is votes for Howard Phillips (Constitution).
BROWNE is votes for Harry Browne (Libertarian).
HAGELIN is votes for John Hagelin (Natural Law).
BUCHANAN is votes for Pat Buchanan (Reform).
BUSH is votes for George W. Bush (Republican).

Vote for U.S. Senate:
SENDEM is votes for Mel Logan (Democrat).
SENLIB is votes for Margaret Dawson (Libertarian).
SENREP is votes for Craig Thomas (Republican).

Vote for U.S. House:
CONGDEM is votes for Michael Allen Green (Democrat).
CONGLIB is votes for Lewis Stock (Libertarian).
CONGOTH is votes for Victor Raymond (Natural Law).
CONGREP is votes for Barbara Cubin (Republican).


Vote for State Senate:
(Note: Districts have staggered terms; only even-numbered districts appear.)

SSREP is votes for the Republican candidate
     J. Anderson in District 2.
     Kunz in District 4.
     Moore in District 6.
     Devin in District 10.
     Stith in District 12.
     Roberts (unopposed) in District 16.
     Coe (unopposed) in District 18.
     Geiss (unopposed) in District 20.
     Schiffer (unopposed) in District 22.
     Erb in District 24.
     Peck (unopposed) in District 26.
     Walsh in District 28.
     Scott in District 30.

SSDEM is votes for the Democratic candidate
     Becksted in District 2.
     Ken Tuma in District 4.
     Cathcart in District 6.
     Mockler (unopposed) in District 8.
     Murphy in District 10.
     Rae Lynn Job in District 12.
     Harris (unopposed) in District 14.
     Calhoun in District 24.
     Goodenough in District 28.
     Horton in District 30.

SSLIB is votes for the Libertarian candidate.
     O'Reilly in District 10.


Vote for State House:
(Note: Some state house districts overlapped precincts.  Those precincts spill into additional
columns in descending order by their house district number.  The HD variable treats split
precincts differently, so any analysis conducted by HD number will exclude them.)

SHDEM is votes for the Democratic candidate.
SHREP is votes for the Republican candidate.
SHLIB is votes for the Libertarian candidate.
SH2DEM is votes for the second house district's Democratic candidate in split precincts.
SH2REP is votes for the second house district's Republican candidate in split precincts.
SH3DEM is votes for the third house district's Democratic candidate in twice-split precincts.
SH3REP is votes for the third house district's Republican candidate in twice-split precincts.


